QUESTION 1

Included in response
a) the benefits of scoping within the EIA
process
Sets scope of ES (terms of reference)

Points

Allows for consultation with relevant parties (e.g.

statutory and non-statutory consultees)

Identifies if EIA actually needs to be carried out

Enables consideration of reasonable and

practicable alternatives

Good explanation

b) how scoping can be carried out

Checklists (general or project specific)

Matrixes e.g. Leopold

GIS or overlays to identify constraints

Meetings and scoping reports

Good explanation

Total
Percentage

20

QUESTION 2
Included in response
Points
a) How the EIA directive indicates what
projects should undergo EIA
Annex 1 mandatory projects
Annex 2 discretionary projects
Annex 3 sensitive areas
b) How individual member states can interpret
these instructions
Can be implemented through planning or other
land use system, or through alternative system
Can chose to have exclusion or inclusion lists
Can use specified threshold criteria
Screening decision trees
Good explanation
Total
Percentage
QUESTION 3
Included in response
a) types of baseline data collected

Points

2
2
2

2
3
3
2
4
20

Description of the project

Types of secondary data e.g. air quality, traffic,
population
Types of primary data e.g. ecological surveys,
dust monitoring etc.
Good explanation
b) importance of good data for impact
prediction
impacts are based on understanding of current
and future baseline therefore if it is wrong, impacts
will be wrong
This could result in the EIA not identifying when a
threshold e.g. air quality would be likely to be
exceeded
It could also result in the EIA incorrectly requiring
expensive mitigation measures
Good explanation
Total
Percentage

2
3
3
2

2
2
20

QUESTION 4

Skill
Points
Good structure (including introduction, conclusion Up to 10
and coherent argument)
Evidence of reading beyond the course notes

Up to 5

Arguments (can include other ideas)

Discussion of how EIA is designed to achieve
access to information and to whom

Examples of how EIA does or does not lead to

access to information

10

Analysis of the extent to which EIA fails to achieve

access to information

10

Ways to make EIA stronger in terms of legislation

10

Ways to make EIA stronger in terms of process

10

Total
Percentage

60

QUESTION 5

Skill
Points
Good structure (including introduction, conclusion Up to 10
and coherent argument)
Evidence of reading beyond the course notes
Up to 5
Arguments (can include other ideas)
Discussion of the origins of European
5
environmental legislation
Evaluation of how prevention is achieved through
10
EIA e.g. through alternatives, through intervention
in early planning, through monitoring and
evaluation of how prevention is NOT achieved
Evaluation
10
through EIA e.g. lack of reasonable alternatives
offered, EIA funded by developers, complex
company structures leading to lack of follow-up of
EIA proceedures.
Discussion of what the wider sustainable
10
development agenda is (including definition of SD)

Discussion of how EIA contributes to the wider

sustainable development agenda e.g. better
understanding of env. Impacts before project
decision, involvement of communities in
environmental decisions, SEA etc.
Total
Percentage

10

60

QUESTION 6

Skill
Points
Good structure (including introduction, conclusion Up to 10
and coherent argument)
Evidence of reading beyond the course notes
Up to 5
Arguments (can include other ideas)
Examination of what the quote means e.g. that
5
current policy and practice relating to
environmental change tends to deal with very small
changes and does not impact on the big issues.
Discussion of what the serious environmental
10
issues are that face humans e.g. global warming,
overpopulation, increasing urbanisation (this is able
to interpreted quite loosely - from a EIA
perspective, these are best related to land use
concerns).
Discuss ability of EIA to deal with these problems
15
e.g. improve projects, identify projects that are
damaging
Discuss how EIA is limited in dealing with these
15
issues e.g. tends to deal with individual project and
rarely used to reject projects etc.
Total
60
Percentage